A feature documentary. LAND examines the three main components that forged the national identity given to the filmmaker and that of her generation at birth, children born early on after Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948. To create a homogeneous identity, the Jews in Palestine in the first part of the 20th Century focused on three main strategies: 1. Develop the concept of a new Jew and the enforcement of Hebrew as the single national language; 2. Contiguous land acquisition; 3. Search for historical evidence of Jewish existence in Palestine 2 to 3 thousand years ago. 4. Create narratives connecting historical stories to form national pride. These strategies served both to validate ownership of the land, and to inspire a unifying sense of connection and purpose. Each one of these activities was spearheaded, or at least influenced by, four of the filmmaker’s ancestors. The film digs through the ancestral layers and follows the filmmaker’s ideological and political transformation.
Land will be composed of home movies and other archival materials, animated sequences and conversations with Israeli and Palestinian historians.
Writer/Director – Orly Yadin
Cinematographer/Editor – Nora Jacobson
Land is currently seeking financial support to complete the film. Land‘s fiscal sponsor is VTIFF. If you’d like further information, please send your query in the Contact form below.